On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 15:30 +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: >> > Am 11.02.2016 um 15:32 schrieb Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> >> > : >> > >> > >> > On 11 February 2016 at 14:21, Nick Leverton <n...@leverton.org> >> > wrote: >> > Possibly a little early - Debian 7 will be going onto LTS security >> > support for >> > two years, starting some time this month. Quoting from >> > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS >> > >> > Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the LTS project and was looking at the >> > security team. >> > >> > This does make it less clear, but it's still an old release and we >> > can't support/test on everything. >> >> Sure, but are there some serious/expensive maintaining efforts >> continuing support Debian 7? >> Or is it an approach to kick Debian from list of supported >> distributions for (above?) reasons? >> >> Since I run some build instances on a Debian 7 machine which is not >> going to be upgraded that >> soon (don't want Debian 8, but don't want to reinstall from scratch >> and migrate my Xen VM's ...), >> dropping support for "it's just time to move on" is more a Desktop >> philosophy, not for embedded/datacenter >> approaches ... > > For example, we'd like to use the sparse option when building rootfs: > > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9099 > > This support isn't available in the version of dd in debian 7. Our > options are: > > * Build a dd -native
For core feature like sparse files its better to control our own destiny and use dd-native regardless. But that does not mean we should not drop debian7 or arcane centos distros that we keep supporting for ever. I still see patches for centos 5.8 in metadata. -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto